Ligonier Banner., Volume 14, Number 23, Ligonier, Noble County, 25 September 1879 — Page 4

* * w . ' The Ligowier Banner, J. B. STOLL, Editor and Prépr;gtof. LIGONIER, IND., SEPT. 25th, 1879.

~ WHEAT! touched $1 in the Chicago markets last Thursday for the first time for the new crop, This price is for Decemberdelivery.

LITTLE SUNSET CoX, Boss Kelly’s “Handy Andy,” opposes the re-election of Gov. Robinson. Poor little Sammy invariably dances to the tune of the Tammany chief, whose bidding he is obliged to do in order to hoid his seat in Congress. s

AN ORGANIZATION of young Republicans in New York City has resolved to labor against the election of Conkling’s man Cornell. They will vote for the tried and proved Reform Governor, Lucius Robinson. Vit LEADING republican organs in New York mournfully sacknowledge that the nomination of Conkling’s man Cornell is a very unfortunate one. They will support him, however, rather than contribute to the re-election of honest Lucius Robinson. : .

THE PAPERS which devote a large portion of their space to the defamation of Samuel J. Tilden have made the discovery that while they have been throwing mud at the Sage of Gramercy Park he has quietly arranged matters in Pennsylvania so as to secure pretty near a solid delegation in the national couvention. ‘

THE SUDDEN ADVANCE in the price of wheat and corn has caused several grain firms in Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis and other points to fail for large sums. These firms suddenly found themselves short and had to go under, Thus it appears that what is the farmer's gain is some buyers’ destructive loss. . o

IT MAY APPEAR somewhat singular but is none the less true that the more mud certain journals throw at Samuel J. Tilden, the strongex he appears to grow 1n the affections of the people. If these journalistic mud-slingers keep on a little while longer, opposition to Uncle Samuel will amount. next to ‘nothing, by the time the national convention meets. e :

It won't take %ery long for the Grant boom to spend its force. A review of his administration, generally conceded to have been the most corrupt and profligate since the existence of the government, will set cool-head: ed people to thinking. As a distinguished soldier the people will ever honor and esteem him, but as -chief magistrate no laudation is due him.

SECRETARY SHERMAN sought to spike- democratic guns by issuing an order to permitthe conversion of greenbacks into coin at other points beside the city of New York. An examination of his resumption act convinced him, however, that his plan for redeeming greenbacks at other sub-treasuries than that at New York is contrary to law; hence the order had to be revoked. Is it possible that the Secretary ot the Treasury was ignorant of thé law of his own making? . N

- CONKLING’S CROWD is coolly informed that civil service order No. 1 forbids the collection of corruption funds from government employes; but when Sherman discovered that his.friend Charley Foster stands in imminent peril of defeat in Ohio, civil service order No. 1 is set aside and 80,000 office-holders are commanded to shell out in order to raise funds for the purpose of corrupting the voters of Ohio. Verily, of all the political snakes in the land John Sherman is the slimiest.

TuE SUPREME COURT of this State, Wednesday of last week, rendered a decigion in the Michigan City prison contest. The decision affirms the opinion of the lower court and is favorable to the new board of directors chosen by the late Legislaturé—John Lee, Fred. Hoover and Simon Wile—and disposes of the vretensions of Robert Dykes and John W. Baker, who sought to hold on to a two-year’s office for the period of four years. It is believed that Warden Mayne will now “step down and out” and gracefully yield the place to his lawful successor, Mr: James Murdock. Negotiations to that effect are now pending. Lo

THE South Bend Register says: “It is expected that by the 25th of this month three hundred democratic orators will be on the stump in Ohio, under engagement to speak until the day of election. Every town in the State is to be visited by these orators. Enormous mass-meetings are to be held, and ' acknowledged greenbackers of prominence from various parts of the coun- - try.are to take the stump for Ewing.” No wonder Sherman and Foster have become frightened and are now calling on the 80,000 federal office-holders to come down with the ready cash for the purpose of averting & ds;mmmc yictory,” | A o

ON ANOTHER PAGE: will be found liberal extracts from the great speech of Senator Voorhees recently delivered at Hamilton, Ohio. It will amply repay an attentive perusal,

EI¢HTY THOUSAND federal officeholders are called upon.by the republican congressignal committee to shell out part of their earnings for the purpose of defeating the gallant General Ewing for Governor of Ohio. And this with the consent of John Sherman, amember of the Hayes administration that issued civil service reform order No. 1! O, ye hypocrites!

THE COLORADO Republicans adoepted a resolution at their State convention last Friday pledging the republican vote of that State to Grant, should he decide to become a candidate for the presidency. The resolution was carried unanimously with great enthusiasm and cheering. It is quite evident that if Grant wants the republican nomination he can easily get it.— BBut he cannot be elected.

~ AS COMPARED with the administration ot Grant, Mr. Hayes’ management of governmental affairs is several hundred percent. better than that of his imme(liat&piedecesgor. Nosuch scan«dals as characterized the Grant administration can be charged to the Hayes administration. In view of this fact ‘does it not appear singular that while Grant is being lauded to the very skies, scarcely a kind word is being spokeﬁ of Mr. Hayes. in the columns of the stalwart press and in stalwart conventions ? L

Tue London 7'imes estimates the mo'ney-value of th%e deficiencies in the seveyral crops as follows: Wheat, £25,000%); beans, peas and rye, £3,000, 000 ; potatoes, £15,000,000 ; hops, £1,250,000, and hay, £15,000,000, making a total loss of £59,250,000, or equivalent to $295,000,000. That’s a big pile of money, and will produce a marked expansion of the circulating medium. We presume some Sherman idolators will have the audacity to claim this influx of gold s one of “Honest John’s” financial achievements, though he have ag liftle to do with ti as the man in the moon. e \

A CORRESPONDENT of that intensely republican organ, the Cincinnati Commercial, who had a talk with Governor Blackburn, of Kentucky, one day last week, about the yellow fever scandal, closes his letter as follows: “I left Frankfort deeply impressed with the generous and manly character of Dr. Blackburn, and firmly convinced of his innocence of complicity in the socalled yellow fever conspiracy, or any other scheme involving treachery, cruelty or cowardice.” Notwithstanding this, the republican gong-beaters who care nothing for truth or fairness, will continue to repeat their accusations against the Governor just so long as they think they can make a little polit--Ical ecapital, ¢

‘THE Fort Wayne Sentinel is of the opinion that “Ex-Senator Doolittle’s “gpeech, read at Toledo Wednesday “night (the Senator not being present *on account of the death of his wife) “was the most powerful analysis and “arraignment of the financial policy of “the republican party we have ever “read.” No unprejudiced man can read this truly powerful argument without becoming convinced of the injustice and infamy of the financial legislation of 1869 to 1875. The major portion of the facts embodied in Mr. Doolittle’s speech have heretofore been presented to the public in one form or another, but never in language so clear and forcible. Mr. Doolittle is among the most powerful orators of the age. He would make a splendid President. We would love to vote for him. E :

IN |lB Columbus speech a few weeks ago Senator Thurman said: “About every twenty years we have a commercial revulsion which, for brevity’s sake, we call a panic; when the country wakes up to the fact that, owing to an imprudent extension of credit or bad legislation, or both, it is not able to pay its debts on demand. A long period of suffering, generally five or six years, ensues, and then, having reached the bontom, any chahge must necessarily be for the better, and business begin to reviye, Specie payments are resumed, as it is'called, that is, paper money and specie come to par. It is not this resumption, 5o called, that produces a revival of business, but it is the revival of business that produces the resumption. In 1837 one of these panics occurred. ' In five or six years thereafter, indebtedness being in a great measure liquidated, or wiped out by the bankrupt law of 1841, business began to revive and, as a consequence, we had what was called a resumption of specie payments. In 1857 we had anothér paric, and its history would have been precisely that of the panic of 1837 bad not the clvil war oceurred. In 1873 came the last panie and, without any resumption act, five or six years, as in former instances, would have brought us back to a revival of industry and a resumptiop of specie .

NEWSPAPERS, in publishing tabular statements, or any statement containing figures, should take special pains to give these correctly. Otherwise people are led into error, and it would be much better if the figures were not given at all. - :

LATER and more complete returns from Maine and California are to the effect that the republican minority in Maine is about 4,000, and that the political complexion of the senate, which elects the Governor on failure of election by the people, is stillin doubt. In California the congressional delegation is by no means solidly republican, as persistently claimed, and the Chief Justice is a Democrat.

- Mhat Vietory in Maine. . [Bangor (Me.) Commercial, Sept. 13.] In 1866 in the total vote of 110,892 the republican majority in Mai¥e was 21,382. “ In 1867 the republican majority was 11,911 in a‘total vote of 103,753. In 1868 in a total vote of 131,782 the republican majority was 19,264. lln 1869 in a total vote of 95,082 the Republicans had a majority of 7,646. In 1870 the total vote was 99,801 and the republican majority was 8,248, In 1871 in a total of 105,897 votes the republican majority was 10,673. In 1872 in a total vote of 127,266 the republican majority was 16,510. In 1873 in atotal of 80,953 the republican majority was 9,535. In 1874 in a total of 95,300 the republican majority was 6,430. In 1875 in a total of 111,665 their majority was 3,959. In 1876ina total of 136,823 the republican majority was 14,911. The average Republican majority then for these eleven years was 15,162. In 1876, a Presidential year when extraordinary exertions were made, the vote reached a total of 136,823, the largest that had ever been cast in the State, and the republican majority over all was 14,911. This year the vote is several thousand larger. The last republican reserve has been brought out, an immense amount of money has been spent by the managers of the party, every means honorable or dishonorable has been resorted to to secure republican votes. And yet after this struggle, in a total of not far from 140,000 votes, the republican minority is not less than 1,446, X And this is being heralded all over the country as “a great republican victory.” : ; . ' *‘But what good came of 1t at last?” ‘ Quoth little Peterkin, ‘“Why, that I canuot tell,” said he, ‘*But t'was a famous victory.,”

. Singular Mishaps. Strange mischances with fatal results are daily happening here and there. A Boston butcher ran against a knife that lay on a block, severed an artery, and bled to death. A Denver woman caught her fooc in a railroad frog, and could not get loose before a train ran over her. A Vermont farmer sneezed with a straw in his mouth, drew it into his lungs, and died choking. A horse kicked a Michigan boy into a deep well, where he was drowned. The shoe flew off the foot of a kicking mule, in Nashville, and fractured the skull of a baby. An Oregon girl swallowed her engagement ring, and lived only a week afterward. While standing on his head, on the top of a high fence post, an lowa boy lost his balance, fell into a tub of hot water, and was fatally scalded. A stone, thrown by a playfellow, broke a glass from which a St. Louis boy was drinking, driving some of the pieces down his throat, and he died a few days afterward in great agony. Looking up to watch the flight of an arrow, a Nashville woman did not see it descending directly over her head, and the sharp metal point penetrated her brain through one of her eyes, Kkilling her instantly. e

The Fortunes of the Presidents. * (Baltimore Gazette.) = : Washington left an estate worth $BOO,OOO, John Adams died moderately well off. Jefferson died so poor that if Congress had not given $20,000 for his library he would have been bankrupt. Madison was economical and died rich. Monroe died so poor that he was buried at the expense of his relatives in this city. John Quincy Adams left about $50,000, theresult of prudence. His. son, Charles Francis Adams, gained 3 large fortune by marriage. Jackson died tolerably well off. Van Buren died ‘worth $300,000. It is said that during his entire administration he never drew any portion of. his salary, but on leaving took the whole $lOO,OOO in a lump. Polk left about $150,000. Tyler married a lady of wealth and accomplishments, and died rich. Taylor left about $150,000. Fillmore was always an economical man, and added to his wealth by his lastmarriage. Piercesaved about $50,000.. Buchanan left about $200,000; Lincoln about $72,000; Johnson about $50,000. o :

} Naming the Presidential Candidates. WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—At adinner given last evening by the Washington correspondents to one of their corps ‘who has entered upon new duties, ‘about twenty of the leading newspa‘pers of the country were represented. Slips of paper were handed about the' ‘table and the guests were asked to ‘write upon them the names of those' ‘'whom, in their judgment, would be the candidates of the Democratic and 'the Republican ‘parties for Presidenf in 1880. © A decided majority thought that Tilden would be the Democratic candidate and that Grant would re‘ceive the Republican nomination. Bayard, Hancock, Da¥id Davis, Sherman, and Blaine were named by a few of ‘the correspondents. ' - ol ¢

"ForT WAYNE, Sept. 28.—The North-’ ern Indiana Fair is now in full blast. The attéendance is’ large 'and the displdy very fine. The match for gentlemen’s roadsters was won by Barney 0., Frank second and Maud third, Time 2611, 2:56%4,2:52,2:51%4, ‘Madame Thiers made a balloon ascension. Harry Gilbert was advertised for, the ascension, but. his balloon exploded while being infiated, " el

14 o g Help Me, Cassius, Or | Sink !” Money Demanded of Federal Office- ~ Holders to Corrupt the Voters of Ohio. S WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—The practical operation ot Mr. Hayes’ civil-ser-vice order No.l has been illustrated here this week in a way to make the honest fqlk of the rural districts, for whose edification and in the hope of ‘whose support it was promulgated, marvel at its meaning. Three days ago a New York solicitor requested Mr. Sherman to permit him to seek .subseription for the State campaign from among the Treasury clerks. Mr. Sherman indignantly repelled the solicitor’s advances on the ground of civil-service propriety. The real‘reason for the refusal, though, was proba'bly because Mr. Shermaﬂn was not anxious to help Mr. Conkling. To-day every clerk in the TFreasury and other departments was handed. with Sherman’s consent and'assent, a circular issued by the Republican Congressional Committee, by which it will be seen that civil-service proprieties may suit oceasions. This is the circular:

HEADQUARTERS REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE OF 1879, 1,317 F STREET. } WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 13, 1879. Str :—The heavy and increasing demands upon the Congressional Committee as the campaign progresses induces us to invite such voluntary contributions from all persons interested in the success of the I‘egu{>)l‘ican party and its measures as they may be willing and able to make. We earnestly hoy(e that any contributions you may wish to make will be remitted or paid at once to Hon. Jay A. Hubbell. Treasurer, 1,317 F Street. 1t is needed now toenable us to carry on our work with all the energy that the importance of the issues involved demands. Respectiully yours, j : : H. G. FISHER, Act.ihfg Chairman, JAY A. HUBBELL, Chairman, Wi E. CHANDIER, Secretary.

In addition to the circalars distributed here, copies were mailed to every person in the employ of the Government, 80,000 in all. The failure’ to designate a given percentage of salaries as the assessment charge will be noticed. There are good reasons why no specific assessment should haye been levied, but the amount expected is as large as when in 1876 2 per cent. of the salaries was demanded from the Washington and New Y ork employzes. That demand brought $106,000, of which the departments here sacrificed $93,000. This fact came out in Chandler’s testimony before the Field committee. In 1878 it was proved by Gorham’s testimony before the Wallace committee that 1 per cent. had been demanded in that year, and for this year, with ecivil-service at white heat, the department clerks have been bulldozed out of $ll,OOO before a dollar had been demanded by circular.

© Deeency in Politics. ' (Warsaw Union.) : We don’t believe that personal abuse in politics will mar our future campaigns as much as they have in the past. There is every indication that the people who take an interest in political affairs will never take as much stock in the abuse of their neighbors hereafter as they did when sectional feeling and bitter prejudice against men prevailed—not on account of their conduct as citizens, but because they happen to differ as to the policy to be pursued by :the government. We do not mean to contend that acts of pubiic men are not to be subject to eriticism, or that they are not to be held responsible for their private conduct; but that we discard the vindictive personalities against candidates—those matters that can haye no bearing upon the fitness and qualifications for the effictent and prompt discharge of the duties of the position they seek. We believe the time 1s coming when a paper or public speaker speaks disrespectful of an opponent, loads him down with vulgar epithets, and deals in billingsgate generally, that it will meet with the disapproval instead of the applause of his own audience. We believe the time is near at hand when public discussions will not mean witticisms, ridicule and demagoguery, but what it in fact should be—a dignified argument in behalf of principle. Then we may expect also a healthier state of public sentiment. Y

¢ An Editor’s Time. i The Edinburgh Courier, in quite a lengthy article on *“an edifor’s time,” has this to say: “A newspaper office is like a machine shop, when you cut off the supply of steam the machinery stops, and so it is with the office. When the man whose duty it ‘is to furnish the compositors with copy is stopped, as a natural consequence they. too must stop. Visitors, on entering an editorial room, should always let the editor ‘make the first salutation. He will always do so immediately if not busy, and if he is busy he does not want to be interrupted. Many think an editor surly because he does not always stop to talk, but the trouble is there are certain times when he can not stop without serious loss and inconvenience, and allowances should be made. He is always delighted to entertain his friends, except in the rush of business and when the inexorable cries for copy are nut to be silenced.” Correct, every line of it. = - ;

Who Wouldn’t? » The Wapakoneta Democrat says an editor 1s the man who reads newspapers, writes articles on most any subject, sets type, reads proof, saws wood, draws water, makes fires, works in the garden, sweeps out, talks to all ‘who call, blamed for a hundred things that are nobody’s business but his' own, helps people to get into office (who forget all about him afterwand) and frequently ‘gets cheated out 'of half' his earnings., He puffs and dpes more to' build up the town than any one else,’ and the miser and fogy are benefited thereby ; yet they will say that the editor’s paper is of no account— will not’ advertise or take the paper, but will borrow it. Who wouldn’t be an editor? B _:‘;k : Unabiidal g ¢ 5 ~ Expénsive Carelessness. = “Mr. David ‘M. Houser, of Liberty, township, St. Jo. county, had'a little spare cash which he sécreted under the ornamental .cover of the parlor stove, . Mrs, Houser built fire in the stove, and Mr, Houser is now anxiously waiting to hear whether the Washing authorities believe the little charred mass he sent I 8 worth #1909,

Profane Swearing. A sensible exchange says: “Isthere anyone who will defend the practice of profane swearing? Who thinks it an accomplishment? And “yet but few vices are so general and so seldom rebuked. Boys think it brave, and young men regard it as an expression of their independence, and older men find the habit fixed upon them and hard to overcome. Thus the class of profane swearers i year by year multiplied. If there were any solid comfort or amusement in it, we should not ‘wonder 80 much at the habit; but who says there is? What intelligent man finds amusement in listening to a conversation loaded down with oaths? Who thinks it makes the language stronger in expression ? Areyou,intelligent reader, any less likely to be impressed with the correctness or earnestness of the answer, ‘I do not know,’ if the man says“ Damned if I know ?’ And yet walk the streets, you encounter men in trade, boys in their teens, young menp in their prime, and old men with gray heads, all alike addicted to'this senseless as well as wicked habit. But we are assured that most men are ashamed of the habit, and regard it as ungentlemanly, from the fact that they attempt to refrain from it in the parlor, and in the presence of mother, wife and daughter. If it were an accomplishment, and made language stronger and added to the expression, certainly the profane man should be anxious to teach his wife and daughters these choice terms. Show us the man who will do it, and we will show you one whom the devil honors above all his fellows. Profanity, in any form you may take it, is' a most unnatural vice, and pays poorest of any in the long list. The man who is addicted to it, without regard to any consideration than that of being a gentleman, might well afford to correct the habit. When morality and religion are considered, in addition, the obligation is imperative. bk S

Ben. Franklin’s View of the Connecticut Sunday. [Verbatim copy of a letter on file at the headquarters of the New Haven (Conn.) Colony H.sto- - rical Society.] PHILADE, Dec. él, 1762.—Dear Sir: I thank you for y&ur kind Congratulations. It gives me Pleasure to hear from an old Friend; it will give me much more pleasure to see him. * * I should be glad to know what it is that distinguishes Connecticut Religion from common Religion:—communicate, if you please, some of these particulars that you think will amuse me as a virtuoso. When I traveled in Flanders I thought of your excessively strict observation of Sunday; and that a man could hardly travel on that day among you when his lawful occasions without Hazard of Punishment, while where I was everyone traveled, if he pleased, or diverted himself in any other way; and in the afternoon both high and low went to the Play or the Opera, where there was plenty of Singing, Fiddling and Dancing. I looked round for God’s Judgments, bt saw no signs of them., The Cities were well built and full of Inhabitants, the Markets filled with Plenty, the peoile well favored and well clothed; the "ields well tilled; the Cattle fat and strong; the Fences, Houses -and Windows all in repair; and no Old Tenor anywhere in the country, — which would almost make one suspect that the Deity is not so angry at that offense as a. New England Justice. * * I am Dear Friend Yours affectionately ‘ B. FRANKLIN.

Poverty in New Yorlk. ; : INew York Sun.] “Teresa Dennis, what have you to say to the charge made against you by Mrs. Margaret Smith, who charges you with stealing a washtub, worth forty. cents ?” ‘ h , “I did steal it, Judge.” L ; “What led you to do so?” “My husband died eighteen months ago. He was a hard working man, but during his long sickness all his savings went away. Since his death I have tried to support both my children. I have a girl aged 10 and a boy aged 8. I have worked hard at washing and scrubbing, and managed for a time to keep the bread in my little children’s mouths. I have walked the street from morning to night for the past week, but have been unable to ¢btain work. I havesold everything I had, even to the bed. Tuesday morning I had nothing in the house to feed my little ones.- I went out and tried to get work. I failed, and came back to my room empty handed. Ihave noteaten a crumb of bread since then, and when I left home this morning my children were crazed from hunger. I begged for bread but was refused. Then I went out and tried to get work. I picked up that old washtub, hoping to get five cents fgr my little ones.” Justice Smith committed the mother and sent for officer Chiardi of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, to take care of the two little children. : o (i

‘ . Significant Figures. P - -(South Bend Herald.) ' ,iAfter deducting the entire pro-slave-ry rebel element from the population of the slaveholding States. engaged in the rebellion, there seem to have been more Union men left in the South who were willing to sacrifice their lives for the old flag than all the New Eugland States put together. Here are the official figures of the war department: BAING o cvvunrogrsvaiisy SArsvimtobasizanes tI2IIE Conneoticut: (00 nn. il T R g NeW Hampshire ... tl:.oiidarseiine. s 36652 VelMONUis chubocsrsvnnbipeiidyciavoyy il 351089 Blode ISIanG uiopnceoeinsivcnsvasceioi, - 23,008

Totpl ..o conmiatio olonion il L v 805.168 West Virginia..esesconsidiiiv,iiiediae. 182,083 Ma1'y1anfﬁ,.._.,..,..,...‘,.... shs s capesmaas DUBIB. KOentneßy oot lota i U 1909 Tennessee .., Sdliaiidiiiiag divad 81,002 MBSO o b toid s smn dn bise conamsnpnpivuivine . 1095114 OPotalys e dL B Gl et g So/it'appears that five “rebel” States actually sent 301,610 soldiers into the Union army to Suppress the rebellion, or 76,547 more than five New England States, and every Union soldier from the South was accounted of more value in the field than two Union soldiers, from thie New England States. How. is that fo‘r,pgt;,t}iqtiisgpj;‘ e e Johnston’s Sarsaparilla cures Dyspepsia, Indie , . Bigk ‘ regr i i grion Skadad, sl gl B Sl

- 'The Outlook in Ohio. . " [Washington correspondence N. Y. World.] There is no doubt that money is needed in large amounts to give Ohio to the Republicans. Of this assurances are abundant from those who have carefully spudied the situation in that State. ~Chairman MeKinney, of the Ohio Democratic Committee, who still remains here, is confident that Ohio must elect the full Cemocratic ticket. To be sure he'speaks from a partisan standpoint, but he has a reputation to maintain as a party manager and no one questions his ability to form a rational judgment upon the matter. In conversation this afternoon he said: “Ohio is by n 0 means a doubtful State, It is a Democratic; State.! Since 1861 the aggregate votes east for democratie tickets exceeds that cast for republican tickets by 28,000. This campaign will be the most earnest ever held in Ohio. Next week when Mr., McDonald, ‘Blackburp, and the other:speakers begin to go through the State it will be seen that the popular feeling is decid: edly- with us and that our lines are firm. Indeed I think they will be reinforced by at least two-thirds of the greenback vote. The three greenback members of the last Legislature have taken the stump for. Ewing. ‘That would seem to indicate pretty clearly how the people feel, for those men look for future encouragement ‘and. are too shrewd to.risk anything. General Ewing' himself has been working very hard and is a great favorite. He is vastly more popular than TFoster among the soldier element and will doubtless.secure nearly all of that vote, and among civilians his popularity is sufficiently attested by the immense crowds that attend his meetings. There have been rumors that Ewing would be likely to suffer at Thurman’s hands, because the, latter hopes to gain only the Legislature. Nothing could be more untrue. They are on the best of terms personally and are working together for the good of the whole ticket. The rumor started among people who were anxious to create trouble between them, and the attempt was a failure.— I predict a democratic victory by 25 - 000 to 30,000 majority.” = . -

Tilden and Ewing. _ (Washington Special to the Chicago Tribune.) The Hon. Richard T. Merrick, the well-known attorney, of this city, and one of the counsel for Mr. Tilden before the electoral commission, has recently spent a day with ‘Mz, Tilden, and had a general talk in regard to the political situation. Mr. Merrick says that he found him more solicitous in regard to carrying Ohio than over anything else in political -affairs—and much more so than over New York. He considers General Ewing’s- success as almost vital to the Democracy, and. he was willing to do everything in his power to contribute to it. He urged Mr. Merrick to proceed at onee to Ohio, and enter upon the. campaign work there. He wassoanxious to have Ewing elected that he did not wish to neglect anything which could contribute: to that result. . Mf. Tilden also expressed himself freely in regard to the situation in New York. He felt confident that this earnest effort of the Democracy of the State to erush Tammany would command the support of many Indeépendent Republicans. He felt sure that mowe of this class wouiu vote for Robinson than would be drawn off by Kelly. He regarded Tammany as having long been before the people the heaviestload New York Democrats had ever carried, and he thinks if it ean be beaten now, it will remove the only obstacle to Democratic success in that State in 1880. - = . From the tenor of Mr. Merrick’s conversation it is evident that Mr. Tilden considers the questicn of his hominatiou by the next democraticconvention as already settled in his favor. It is also evident from the earnest interest he expressed in General Ewing’s success that the hard money Democrats of the East do not intend to make any trouble with their Western soft-mon-ey brethren on account of their financial heresies.. . o -

The Contest in New York. : (Brownstown Banner.) Ever since Governor Tilden unearthed the iniquities of the Tammany ring, which, under Boss Tweed and his confederates, plundered the people of New York City of countless sums of meney, he has been hated by the Tammanyites. The main issue before the Syracuse Convention was practically whether the Democracy of New York should surrender .to Tammany by withdrawing .Robinson from the contest, or whether to pledge themselves anew to the work of economy, retrenchment and reform by re-nominating him for the gubernatorial chair, regardless of the howls of opposition sent up by the Tammany ringleaders. They wisely and bravely chose the former, believing that their action would be vindicated at the ballot-box by the honest masses oftheState: v v i 0

As we view the bold, firm and immovable stand taken and ‘maintained by Samuel J. Tilden through all phases of the campaign—how . he refused to yield one jot or tittle from the position taken by him on the side of the people against the demands of the . Tammany ring—our admiration of the man increases a hundred fold. He had marked out his policy and adhered to it with Jacksonian firmness, permitting - no ‘considerations selfish to his own as§pirations tothe presidency to swerve “him an iota from the pursuit of his righteous purpose.” The noble fight he has'made will strengthen him in ‘the ‘affections of the Democracy and honest, conservative people of all parties, with the great majority of whom an ardent hope has abided that the great wrong perpetrated by the High Joint Com- - mission of 1877 would be at least partially atoned foron the fourth of March, 1881, by his inauguration as President of the United States.” ' - et eRt L Ladies, you cannot make fair skin, rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes with all thie cosmetics of Er&q@@,g}gﬁ%&t}ﬁew . of the world, while in poor health,aud nothing will give you such good health,. :stzz‘éfp%gngabﬁnx?ﬂﬁ smr;:ﬂmﬁ GAULY a 8 Hop fitfes. ' & trial o certun proof. See another oolgm, e f’;jﬁ?’i‘fﬂﬁg‘j;fg